Sunburned souls of feet

Dark underneath like peach stone game

Naked as children

On hell’s gleeds and planted seeds untortured

And these are the weeds the trees I worship

Fist full of dust

Where we used to make mud pied

Washing dirt off the conscious of

Late to rise farmers

And early to leave charmers

Count your blessings not your presents

Oh Jade I prayed

Let givers give

And forgivers give

And livers live in livelihood

Let the warship of worshipers shipwreck

On Gibraltar’s stone

Let the captain be blinded by the sun

Ears defined by the cannon ball gun

And let the slaves lead the way back home

For they know the stories of the starts

And have drank the blood of mars

And matched the skin of night

To circumnavigate the universe unnoticed

And further more unannounced

They observe with purpose

And take pinch

I have listened to the string bands

And climbed Shuksan in a dream

In Autumn I studied the book of Saul

And fell in love with She

Galaxies of mythology

Mystify the time

Accordions can burden men

But they’re stretching out my mind

In my mouth I’ve built a well

That tunnels to my heart

I’ll pull the pail and regurgitate

The truest form of self

I’ve closed my eyes and held my breath

And counted up to ten

And in that time

I’ll bet the farm

You couldn’t imagine where I’ve been

I walked the block where the isles talk

And black sand turns to snow

The beach the trail the fort the port

The cliff the bridge the ghost

I died a million deaths

Childhood was fun

Opened my eyes to finalize

But this place has just begun

To understand that:

Books are planets

Parents are poets

Blueberries are black holes

Blackberries fill blue bowls

Mole holes doors to

The Underground Railroad

Broccoli to me miniature trees

Cauliflower a fresh snowfall

Bellies of belugas gardens

Fish sworn enemy with tarter

Kiss with lines of symmetry

Sedimentary ideologies solidify

Here the clouds love to cry

Lightning bolts makes mother earths hair stand up

Today she wears two braids they are twisters

Sisters of Elly May,

She sings in the shower Oh Susanna

Her smile a bright banana